Word: punditing
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...sloganeers eyed with interest the following quotation, reported or invented by Pundit Mark Sullivan of the New York Herald Tribune to describe the relation between Prosperity and Prohibition in the feelings of the midwest: " 'I don't like Prohibition, but I'm going to vote for Hoover because I'd rather eat than drink...
...Near-Pundits. One journalistic level above the Star Reporter is the Near-Pundit. A very silly bulletin posted in the offices of the New York World says...
...boost the Brown Derby. His Republican equivalent is found in Carter Field, thoroughly partisan chief of the Herald Tribune's Washington bureau. The Field despatches deal with anything and everything political, except foreign policy, which until lately has usually been handled by Henry Cabot Lodge (grandson), another Near-Pundit, stalking about on errands of his own. Most Field and Lodge despatches are plastered thoroughly with such expressions as "observers here are agreed," "as a prominent Republican said today," "it is said," or "experts foresee." The anonymity of the "experts," "Republicans" and "observers" does not rob such despatches of interest...
Another book writer is tense, talkative Pundit William Hard. Who's Hoover? he propounded this year in 274 pages of undismayed analysis.- His wife Anne Hard and his daughter, Eleanor, write politics-for-women in the Herald Tribune and Junior League Bulletin, respectively...
...knows the politicians as few of them know themselves. Exposing their humbuggery, dishonesty, pomposity, spells FUN to him. He probably got his taste for political writing from his uncle, Frank A. Richardson, who from the Civil War until 1910 was Washington correspondent for the Baltimore Sun, in which Pundit Kent's "Great Game of Politics" (column) appears daily and of which he is vice president. He delineates the technology of politics. He has done a history of the Democratic party, f He can applaud as well as he can slam and bang. And he can sympathize because once...